Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Sunspot 1467 via Binoculars

To the left is an image of the Sun and Sunspot 1467, the Sunspot group that has been blasting out M class flares for the past few days made with safe solar projection. On the right is the binocular lashup I made to take it. The Pizza box sun screen is required to keep the projected image in a reasonably dark spot. The image was projected onto a piece of paper stuck to a handy pillar on the verandah. It was quite clear to the eye, but getting the camera to focus on it was not so successful.